Posted on 09/18/2005 10:56:31 AM PDT by wagglebee
Contradicting his previous statements on the Iraq war, ex-President Bill Clinton said Sunday that there was no basis to attack the rogue nation when President Bush began the Iraq war two years ago.
"The administration . . . decided to launch this invasion virtually alone and before the U.N. inspections were completed - with no real urgency, no evidence that there was any weapons of mass destruction there," he complained to ABC's "This Week."
"I didn't not favor what was done," Clinton said.
"I thought that diverted our attention from [Afghanistan] and al Qaida and undermined the support that we might have had," he said. "But what's done is done."
Clinton's comments represented a marked shift from the position he took as president.
"We have to defend our future from these predators of the 21st century," he warned in a Feb. 1998 speech.
"And they will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. . . . There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq. His regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region and the security of all the rest of us."
But the ex-president suggested Sunday that deposing Saddam by military force had been a mistake.
Asked if he thought the U.S. had a strategy for victory in Iraq, Clinton told "This Week": "Well, if we do it's not working right now."
If he were president, Clinton said he'd make stabilizing Afghanistan a bigger priority than securing Iraq.
"The only thing I would sacrifice [Iraq] to is if I felt we were going to lose in Afghanistan. We cannot lose in Afghanistan. We cannot let the Taliban come back. We cannot let Karzai fail. We cannot relax our efforts to try to keep undermining the al Qaida because that's still, by far, a bigger threat to our security."
> "I didn't not favor what was done," Clinton said.
Umm, OK.
Anyway, the Admin has got to stop favoring this clown
with photo ops. BJ is not returning the favors.
Clinton has totally trashed the the longstanding tradition
that former Presidents SHUT UP after leaving office, apart
from pounding nails or raising money for charities. This
weakens the US significantly.
If Bush ever said that about anything, it would be on the "Bushism" newsreels by 6 pm tonight and would be on Saturday Night Live next Saturday.
Bill Clinton = Jerry Rivers the same kind of media whore
True. But the problem is that Slick Willie believes Slick Willie.
Spoken as the truly do-nothing liberal creep he was, is and always will be. Screw him.
Thank you.
Guess the Potatohead forgot to ask the bent one why Sandy Burgler was stealing documents if Iraq was so unimportant. Once a perjurer; always a perjurer.
What's clear is that the Bush Administration covered all the bases, considered all the options, planned and prepared as realistically and carefully as they could.
Then the made their choices...and, as is the case in all human affairs, they must take the consequences - both good and bad.
If Slick Willie believes Slick Willie, that would mean he wouldn't change his story every other day.
My guess is that he has NO core beliefs but only goes whichever way the wind is blowing./
After his worthless global event in NY this past week, Bubba must think he is now King of the World. What a joke that guy is.
Who cares what the Liar-in-Chief says.....what a disgrace he is!
Interveiwed by a former employee!
What a joke.
There is every reason to suspect that Clinton either took bribes from the KLA or was grafting off of the Balkans trade missions. It would have been entirely in character and consistent with his approach to Red China.
Even if the death of Ron Brown was an accident, Clinton certainly didn't seem too upset by it. 
I agree. As a human, Bill Clinton is almost the perfect predator. Except when he's scared.
fyi
I agree and went looking for a ready made - my eyes! My Eyes! The sites are either Far Far Left or ...... you don't want to know. Not good with graphics so we'll have to hope someone else is and can come up with a good one.
clintin/MONICA....forever and forever.
clintin...the worst President this country has ever had...BAR NONE.
George W. Bush, one of the Best Presidents this country has ever had...
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